• 2022-2024, ‘Replay’, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Film and Media Arts project grant and venue subsidy.
• 2023, ‘Art Futures Awards Initiative: Developing new digital frameworks for arts awards evaluation and a longitudinal impact study of award graduates in East Asia and Hong Kong’, Hong Kong Baptist University Grants Committee.
• 2022-2024, ‘Tree of Knowledge: Developing a 21st century interactive knowledge map’, Transdisciplinary Discovery Commons, Hong Kong Baptist University Library.
• 2021-2023, ‘Abstract Poetry: Developing Algorithms to Generate Poetry from Scienctific abstracts’, Augmented Creativity Lab, Hong Kong Baptist University.
• 2021, Equipment Matching Fund, Augmented Creativity Lab, Hong Kong Baptist University Research Committee.
• 2018, Leonardo (MIT Press Journals) top rated LABS Abstract, PhD thesis selected by peer reviewed panel for Leonardo Magazine’s highest ranking advanced degree research in Art and Science
• 2018-2019, ‘Portraits of Thought: Diagrams in Art and Science’,Terumo Foundation, Research Grant for Life Sciences and Art, Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Studies
• 2018, Recipient, Nakatsuji Foresight Foundation Research and Publication Grant, Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Studies
• 2015-19, Kyoto City Government H.A.P.S. studio bursary (4-years)
• 2014, Takeshi Umehara Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Research, Kyoto City University of Arts
• 2013-2014, ‘Dividing Line – Connecting Line’, Nishieda Foundation Grant, Japan
• 2011-2014, ‘Bodymind Topography: conceptual and physical diagramming the designed experience’, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Research Grant, Kyoto City University of Arts

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

• North Carolina Museum of Art
• Hudson Valley Centre for Contemporary Art, New York
• The Chun-Yee Pong Collection, Hong Kong
• Progressive Art Collection, New York
• Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Studies (KUIAD)
• Norio Nakatsuji Collection, Japan
• The Allen G. Thomas Junior Collection, North Carolina
• The Royal College of Art Collection, London

Select articles

• ‘Romantic Objectivism: Developing a Diagrammatic Poetics of Science’, Journal of Visual Art Practice, Special Edition, Volume: 20, Issue: 03, pages 283 – 298., Taylor and Francis, UK, 2021
• ‘Portraits of Thought: Transfiguring the Diagrams of Science’, Drawing Research, Theory, Practice, Volume 5, Number 2, pages 311 – 317, Intellect Books, UK, 2020

• ‘Romantic Objectivism: Diagrammatic Thought in Contemporary Art’, Peer Reviewed Top Ranked LABS Abstracts,Leonardo Magazine, Vol. 52, Issue 5, MIT Press, 2019
• ‘Portraits of Thought: Diagrams in Art and Science’, Exhibition catalogue with essays and artist interview, Kyoto University Museum, 2018
• ‘Dividing Line – Collecting Line’, Exhibition catalogue, essays by Kawaii Yuki (Head Curator, Oyamazaki Art Museum), and Irisawa Masaaki (Curator, Oyamazaki Art Museum), Nishieda Foundation, Japan, 2014

Select exhibitions

• 2024, ‘The Cult of Curiosities’, Hanartz Forum, Happy Valley Hong Kong
• 2024, ‘The Metamorphosis of the Plants: An AI Exploration of Orchid Diversity and Evolution’, The Hong Kong Club
• 2023, ‘Fragments’, solo exhibition, COHJU Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan
• 2023, ‘Urban Species: Desire’, 7A Chancery Lane, Hong Kong
• 2022, Changwon Sculpture Biennale, South Korea
• 2021, ‘Perpetual Motion’, Yi Tai Sculpture and Installation Projects, Art Central Hong Kong
• 2021, ‘CITYA: City As Medium’, Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong
• 2020, ‘Bird Call Full Moon’, solo exhibition, Ashiya Schule Gallery, Ashiya, Japan
• 2019, ‘Still Life’, ACC_R Art-Science Residency Exhibition, Asia Culture Centre, Gwangju, South Korea
• 2019, 유배 새로운 길을 묻다 (‘Exile, Alternative Directions’), The Chusa Museum, Jeju Island, South Korea
• 2019, ‘Art Innovation’, Art & Science International Symposium, Kyoto University and Goldsmiths, University of London, Kyoto
• 2018-2019, ‘Portraits of Thought: Diagrams in Art and Science’, Solo exhibition, The Kyoto University Museum, Japan
• 2017, ‘The Shape of Information’, solo exhibition, COHJU Contemporary Art, Kyoto
• 2016, ‘空隙: (Gap) Contemporary painting in China, Korea, Japan and the UK’, DAHU Art centre, Shanghai
• 2015, ‘Ghost in the Cell’, Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art
• 2015 ‘Wabi Sabi Shima: The Aesthetics of Perfection and Chaos in the Japanese Archipelago’, Thalie Foundation, Hangar H18, Brussels

Reviews:

• ‘Totality and the art of Michael Whittle’, Essay by Jungi Gim, former chief curator, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, 2019
•  ‘In conversation with Michael Whittle’, Interview, Fiends online Magazine, 2018
• ‘Dim Wisdom’, Essay by Prof. Toyota Horiguchi, Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan, 2016
• ‘Dividing Line, Connecting Line, Dividing Line’, Essay by Kawai Yuki, Chief Curator, Oyamazaki Art Museum, Japan, 2014
• ‘A place for understanding and connection’, Essay by Irisawa Masaki, Curator, Oyamazaki Art Museum, Japan, 2014
• ‘Art’s reaction to systematic and formalised knowledge’, Review by Hong Kyung-Hwan, Writer and Art Critic, Seoul, 2011

• 2022, ‘Diagrams in art, celebrating the failure of the inexpressive image’, Invited Conference Presentation, Unseen Science and the Failure of the Visual, Association for Art History, Goldsmiths, University of London, invited paper presentation (on-line)
• 2021, ‘Romantic Objectivism: Recontextualising Diagrams from the Life Sciences in a contemporary fine art context’, The Circulation of Images in the Life Sciences, The U.S. Consortium of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, paper presentation (on-line)
• 2021, ‘Whisper-Listen-Whisper: A collaborative game to facilitate the creative unknown’, Digitally Engaged Learning Conference, Hong Kong Baptist University, Penn State College of Arts and Architecture, Texas State University and University of the Arts London, Paper presentation (on-line)
• 2021, ‘The Subject and the Object: The importance of Art and Science projects’, Guest lecture, Institute for Molecular Science, National Institute of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Japan
• 2021, ‘Research through making’, Guest lecture, School of Creative Media, City University, Hong Kong
• 2021, ‘In conversation with Michael Whittle: Artist and researcher in Diagrammatology’, Masters Showcase Speaker, Guest lecture, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, UK
• 2019, ‘Romantic Objectivism: Diagrams in Art & Science’, Guest lecture, Kyoto City University of Arts, Kanazawa University of Art, Japan
• 2019, ‘Portraits of Thought: Diagrams in Art & Science’, Guest lecture, Kyoto University, Japan
• 2019, ‘Illuminated Alphabets from A to Z: a history of European illuminated letters’, Guest lecture, The Chusa Museum, Jejudo, South Korea
• 2018, ‘Objectivity in Science and Art’, Guest lecture, Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Studies, Japan
• 2018, ‘Romantic Objectivism – On the Role of Diagrams in Visual Culture’, 2018 Pioneer Lecture – Celebrating pioneering research in visual culture, London College of Communication, UK

PhD Dissertations, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong

• Co-supervisor for Nadim Abbas, “From Bonsai to A.I.: Miniatures in an Age of Technological Miniaturization” (in progress).
• Selected for the 2022 Kwok Chung Bo Fun PhD Student Research Excellence Award.

MA in Visual Arts, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong

• Chen Kai Karry Ying, ‘Co-existence, Primitive Machine’, MA Studio and Media Arts (completed, 2023)
• Jjingwen Hu, ‘The Dreamer’, MA Studio and Media Arts (completed, 2023)